Babies are extremely fascinating. Everyone knows that. You put a baby in a roomful of people and within ten minutes, every single person in the room will quit what they're doing to look at the baby make spit bubbles.
While spit-bubble-making is one skill babies (read we) never forget, there are some important life lessons that they/we do. Watching my baby girl grow older, I wish she would always remember these.
Lesson #1: Never Give Up
If Baby had 'give up' in his dictionary, nobody in this world would know how to walk, to chew, to talk, to retain attention and the other 'mundane' stuff. The amount of persistence Baby has is phenomenal. Baby keeps at it till he finally learns.
Do you?
Lesson #2: Fall, without grace, on your bottom but get right back up again
Baby falls on bum at least five times in a minute; he gets right back up without a look back. Then I imagined when life throws me down on mine and I want to dig a hole, crawl in it and stay forever: I just do not want to get up again!
Lesson #3 Distract yourself to Feel Better
He bruises his chin on a rough end on the chair and wails till your eardrum cracks. But you distract him with his favourite toy and he'll forget about the bruise. He will not refer back to it in any conscious way, making you wonder if the bruise actually did hurt.
Lesson #4: Be Focused/Single-minded
Baby will get what she wants. She has all the necessary weapons of Cuteness and Tears. What's more, she'll walk all over you (literally!) to reach what she wants. And she'll make sure to give you that smile of success after she gets it. I know some (older) people who display these traits in a rather ugly manner but they have forgotten one key element that babies don't: in order to gain what they want, they never intentionally and with knowledge hurt another.
Lesson#5 There's Nothing Really So Bad in Life That a Good Finger Won't Appease
We're talking about babies and important things like life lessons so it might be best to take our minds out of the gutter... Baby has the perfect tool in his thumb which, under duress, proves to be the best friend, the pacifier, the anchor. Things might not be working out the way he wants but the thumb-sucking allows him to calm down, collect his thoughts and then focus on other, better things. When the going gets tough and all that...*
I imagine life would be a lot easier for most of us if nature had planned for us to not forget these important things as we age. But since we do, we can only reminisce and (try to) relearn.
While spit-bubble-making is one skill babies (read we) never forget, there are some important life lessons that they/we do. Watching my baby girl grow older, I wish she would always remember these.
Lesson #1: Never Give Up
If Baby had 'give up' in his dictionary, nobody in this world would know how to walk, to chew, to talk, to retain attention and the other 'mundane' stuff. The amount of persistence Baby has is phenomenal. Baby keeps at it till he finally learns.
Do you?
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| 1. Wooopsie! 2. Hmmm.. 3. Wait, its no fun down here. 4. Now this is better. 5. RAWRR! |
Baby falls on bum at least five times in a minute; he gets right back up without a look back. Then I imagined when life throws me down on mine and I want to dig a hole, crawl in it and stay forever: I just do not want to get up again!
Lesson #3 Distract yourself to Feel Better
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| Oh look, the sun! |
Lesson #4: Be Focused/Single-minded
Baby will get what she wants. She has all the necessary weapons of Cuteness and Tears. What's more, she'll walk all over you (literally!) to reach what she wants. And she'll make sure to give you that smile of success after she gets it. I know some (older) people who display these traits in a rather ugly manner but they have forgotten one key element that babies don't: in order to gain what they want, they never intentionally and with knowledge hurt another.
Lesson#5 There's Nothing Really So Bad in Life That a Good Finger Won't Appease
We're talking about babies and important things like life lessons so it might be best to take our minds out of the gutter... Baby has the perfect tool in his thumb which, under duress, proves to be the best friend, the pacifier, the anchor. Things might not be working out the way he wants but the thumb-sucking allows him to calm down, collect his thoughts and then focus on other, better things. When the going gets tough and all that...*
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| * but what I actually mean is what you initially thought I meant. |
I imagine life would be a lot easier for most of us if nature had planned for us to not forget these important things as we age. But since we do, we can only reminisce and (try to) relearn.
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